I got me flowers to straw Thy way;
I got me boughs off many a tree:
But Thou wast up by break of day,

And brought'st Thy sweets along with Thee.

PREFACE

ANONYMOUS

CONTENTS

Be my comfort, Christ Jesus!

Prayer of Richard de Castre

Quia Amore Langueo

GEOFFREY CHAUCER (1340?-1400)

Virginibus Puerisque

SIR WALTER RALEGH (1552?-1618)

Pilgrimage

Written in His Bible the Night before His

Execution

EDMUND SPENSER (1552?-1599)

The Ministry of Angels

Easter Day

The Love of Christ.

SIR PHILIP SIDNEY (1554-1586)

Sonnet

MARY COUNTESS OF PEMBROKE (1555?-1621)

Psalm cxxxix

FULKE GREVILLE, LORD BROOKE (1554-

1628)

Faith and Works

19

21

ROBERT SOUTHWELL (1561?-1595)

The Burning Babe

Man's Civil War

At Home in Heaven

Lost Grace

23

24

25

26

SAMUEL DANIEL (1562-1619)

Faith and Form

Works

HENRY CONSTABLE (1562-1613)

To St Margaret

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE (1564-1616)

Soul and Body

THOMAS CAMPION (?-1619)

The Christian Stoic

Song

Song

A. W.

Dialogue

Though late, my heart, yet turn at last

F. B. P.

Urbs Beata Hierusalem.

ANONYMOUS

The Invitation

The Heart's Chambers

Confession

A Royal Guest

SIR JOHN DAVIES (1569-1626)

Self-Knowledge

Self-Ignorance

SIR HENRY WOTTON (1568-1639)

The Character of a Happy Life

JOHN DONNE, Dean of St Paul's (1573-1631)

Four Sonnets:

I. Thou hast made me, and shall Thy

work decay?.

JOHN DONNE-continued

II. As due by many titles, I resign

III. At the round earth's imagin'd

corners blow

IV. Death, be not proud, though some

have called thee

BEN JONSON (1573?-1647)

An Hymn to God the Father

To Heaven

The Fortress of Mansoul.

WILLIAM DRUMMOND (1585-1649)

A Hymn of the Resurrection

Faith without Works

Change should breed Change

No Trust in Time .

ROBERT HERRICK (1591-1674)

Litany

Eternity.

To his Conscience

Lent

To Death

To find God

Upon God

Humility

GILES FLETCHER (1588?-1623)

The Incarnation

The Passion

The Resurrection

Earth and Heaven

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GEORGE HERBERT (1593-1633)

From "The Church Porch"

Education

Wealth

A Wreath

100

RICHARD CRASHAW (1613?-1640)

A Hymn of the Nativity.

Christ when He died

106

108

IIO

III

114

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